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- From: chuan@milton.u.washington.edu (Chuan "infamous" Lee)
- Subject: Re: How does one read a compressed file into a buffer?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.024250.20367@u.washington.edu>
- Sender: chuan@milton.u.washington.edu
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- References: <BRUNNOCK.92Jul30164412@e40-008-7.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:42:50 GMT
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- In article <BRUNNOCK.92Jul30164412@e40-008-7.mit.edu> brunnock@athena.mit.edu (Sean Brunnock) writes:
- >
- >Hello. I seem to recall that there was a command to open
- >compressed files and read them into a buffer in uncompressed
- >form.
- >
- >I have emacs 18.58. I looked for the string "compress" in the
- >summary of Emacs commands within Info, but found nothing.
- >
- >Could someone give me a clue? Please send the clue to
- >brunnock@cambridge.apple.com (I'm a contractor, not an employee).
- >
- >Thank you for any reply.
- >
- >Sean Brunnock
-
- You need a file called uncompress.el to do the trick. I am
- emailing that file to you. Since uncompress is not loaded
- initially, you have load it in your .emacs file.
-
- But I have a question for the other [D]emacs users: I verified
- this uncompress.el on unix. It worked fine. However, when
- I tried this on Demacs (GNU Emacs for DOS), the uncompress
- process, say of file sample.Z, was executed, but the uncompressed
- was stored correctly. I got "bad command or filename" in the file
- sample (the ".Z" was gone). I am very certain the command is
- fine (so, it is not a bad command) because I used it with dired
- to un/compress files. It works fine. Except I can't automatically
- uncompress it when I visit a Z file. :-(
-
- Help!
-
- Chuan Lee
- U of Washington, Seattle.
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-